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A collection of poetry written over the years. My Name is Rich. I have been writing over 30years. I enjoy writing. I wrote this poetry for a special person.

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Includes a map of the Gothic quarter of Barcelona.

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A second collection of prose poems from the author of the award-winning novel The Colour of the Dog Running Away which together form a shifting progressive narrative revolving round three recurring themes: an imaginary and sinister kingdom, a young wanderer named Alice, and a shape-shifting, time-travelling, first person narrator.

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In a lonely house deep in the Black Mountains of south Wales, a man spends insomniac nights absorbed in the ancient texts left him by his mysterious aunt.

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Stowaway is a richly imagined poetic journey revolving around the nameless anti-Ulysses figure at its centre. Journeys of both memory and dream hold out alluring visions of port cities and `Islands, Islands, each with its secrets' in the eastern Mediterranean, yet also recall bloody histories and the darker side of rootlessness.

In 2006, Richard Gwyn was given a year to live without a liver transplant. A novelist and poet, he lost nine years of his life as a vagrant alcoholic roaming the Mediterranean. This memoir is an account of his "lost" years: of addiction and reckless travel, serial hospitalizations, living under sentence of death, the life-saving gift of a hepatic graft, recovery, and at last, redemption via friendship, imagination, intellect, love, and fatherh...

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERJohn A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who made Confederation happen, who built this country over the next quarter century, and who shaped what it is today. From Confederation Day in 1867, where this volume picks up, Macdonald finessed a reluctant union of four provinces in central and eastern Canada into a strong nation, despite indifference from Britain and annexationist sentimen...

Presented in the ancient Japanese form of Haiku poetry, this vivid and deeply moving new translation of the Psalms is vivid and deeply moving. The rhythm of the 17-syllable verse, with its carefully structured pattern, introduces a meditative element to the ageless Psalms, reflecting the life of silent prayer and contemplation of a monk on the island monastery of Caldey. Here are praises to spiritual power presented in a stark and clear fashio...

Uniquely themed, this collection of 22 diverse poems reveals characters whose actions are ruled by water.

From a famed Welsh writer, this collection offers 42 poems packed with exotic smells, metaphysical surprises, myths of home, and the occasional jack wielding a punch.

The extraordinary life of Joey Smallwood is the stuff of fiction-literally: Wayne Johnston's acclaimed novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, draws heavily on this definitive biography. And no wonder! Set against a colorful background in stirring times it has, as its hero, a character whose career defied both convention and the odds. A one time pig farmer and ardent socialist-turned-union-buster Smallwood is best remembered as the man respons...

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Seldom has there been a political leader so complex, so impossible to predict, so difficult to understand, so private and yet so public, as Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister from 1968 to 1979, and again from 1980 to 1984.

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